Basket

Baskets such as this one are extensively used throughout the Himalayas and Tibet for carrying food, usually a personal meal.

Basket with natural twill weave inside and outer basket (part a)made of purple, blue, yellow, and green fillets of cane woven in diagonal and vertical patterns. A twill weave is used and by a simple elaboration of the diagonal combination of the coloured warp and woof gives rise to a geometric design. These two baskets are placed together and are caught between strips of split bamboo. These pieces are lashed to the basket with fine fillets of purple cane. A second basket has been made in the same manner and fits as a lid (part b).